What Will It Take to Get Equitable School Funding in Pennsylvania – a Statewide Teachers Strike!?
What if instead they took to the streets with signs and placards, bullhorns and chanted slogans.
Maybe:
“Hey! HEY! Ho! HO! This Unfair Funding Has to Go!”
Or:
Or:
“What do we want!? FAIR FUNDING! When do we want it? YESTERDAY!”
The problem is that from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and all places in between, the Keystone state has the most unequal school funding system in the country. And no one in Harrisburg seems able and/or willing to do a damn thing about it.
Nor is anyone going to do much again this year.
Gov. Tom Wolf didn’t mention it once last week during the Democrat’s first budget speech to the legislature after being re-elected.
Don’t get me wrong. He’s not exactly ignoring the issue. His newly proposed budget asks for a $200 million increase in education funding.
But that’s far from what’s needed to heal the billions of dollars schools lost during the massive budget cuts of Tom Corbett, the former Republican governor, nor does it CONTINUE READING: What Will It Take to Get Equitable School Funding in Pennsylvania – a Statewide Teachers Strike!? | gadflyonthewallblog
